Conjugal Thoughts
CONJUGAL THOUGHTS
Old men fixed their words in yellowed pages
bound in leather
with gilt end-papers,
but my words are digital,
carved of 1’s and 0’s,
ephemeral and transcendent.
You do not know me, and likely never will,
but in this instant we are connected
as close as lovers,
creating something alive
and growing,
giving life to concepts,
animating ideas
and breathing life into words.
The blood of life is not sex,
it is knowledge.
growing with each generation,
building bridges to both the past
and the far flung future.
Now that we have shared this notion,
had a conjugal moment
birthing this idea together,
you will never be able to unthink it.
There is no such thing
as an abortion for thought.
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Shared for Open Link Night over at DVerse Poets Pub.
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Indeed that is how it should be... but unfortunatly there a periods of collective stupidity that makes us belive that time can be undone.
ReplyDelete‘Conjugal Thoughts’ is a clever title, Christopher. I like the juxtaposition of ‘words in yellowed pages bound in leather’ and digital words, and the thought of ‘giving life to concepts, animating ideas and breathing life into words’. Yes, there’s no thought abortion.
ReplyDeleteLillian here.....pubtender, hosting dVerse OLN today. This is a fascinating idea.....the sharing of poetry, creating thought with words over cyberspace in a digital age, as a conjugal visit. No longer words on yellowed pages....rather thoughts floating in virtual space, in a virtual pub! No abortion for a thought or thoughts...that is true....however, the outward expression of them can certainly be punished or squelched....the very thing we are fighting agains in terms of the deportation of Kahlil from Columbia University in the US. The thoughts are still there....but his freedome to express them is being punished. I worry this administration will send National Guard to squelch demonstrations on campuses (think Kent State's history).
ReplyDeleteWe are strange loops, carrying ourselves and all the others we encounter, their ideas, their ways of being, their feelings with us through life.
ReplyDeleteI love the last stanza!
ReplyDeleteWe didn't know the old poets either but yes we are in this electronic writing cell connected in some small way
ReplyDeleteMuch♡love